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Oxfam - rape reporting

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MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously · 10/06/2021 12:41

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Wtf? Has anyone else seen this yet?

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AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken · 12/06/2021 20:45

@CharlieParley

This thread is about the literature which states white women should not report crime which was endorsed by Oxfam.

Let's not forget Oxfam's motivation here. From the point of view of the white men seeking to abuse women and children, both BAME and white, those who did the most damage to the organisation were white women like Helen Evans and Hannah Clare. They ran the surveys that found widespread abuse, they tried for years to get the Oxfam leadership team to change the culture, and when even the Charity Commission and her MP couldn't help, Helen Evans went public about the issue, later joined by Hannah Clare.

They raised the alarm about a lack of safeguarding in UK-based Oxfam shops that put children at risk, they raised the alarm about serious, including violent, sexual crimes perpetrated by male Oxfam staff against female Oxfam staff, both BAME and white, and about the sexual exploitation and abuse of BAME women and children in relief countries.

These were women who jeopardised their careers and their safety attempting to tackle the issue, but Oxfam's leadership team who still defended their actions after the scandal was already in full swing, were not interested. The toxic atmosphere that made it next to unbearable for women to work there back then is still there now. It has been allowed to fester by the same type of men who signed off on this training manual.

From their perspective, any excuse to blame white women must be welcome. Because at least for Oxfam, they were the source of serious amounts of trouble.

Yes it’s this very fact that makes the literature so chilling. It’s the ultimate silencing tactic.
mustlovegin · 12/06/2021 22:16

Why is Haiti being brought into this thread?

It's deflecting attention from the issue being discussed i.e. the training material

ClareBlue · 13/06/2021 00:30

@FourTeaFallOut

I'm suggesting that sinking into a feminist black hole of cultural relativism affords Oxfam the opportunity to reframe some feminists as bad feminists, which is useful when a number of those feminists are in the media and pointing at you saying your charity workers shouldn't be trading aid for sex.
I think this has happened quite often over the years to individuals, but this has ranked it up a notched by attacking all white feminists. Whatever your view, there should be no distractions from the scrutiny of Oxfam and how they operate in areas with large populations of vulnerable women and how they exercise the power they have.
Rhannion · 13/06/2021 00:45

@NotPersephone

Oxfam giving Stonewall a run for its money in the “who can eat itself first” stakes.
Add Amnesty in Ireland to that list! The daughter of the founder has rightly lambasted them.
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